The Orientation of Future Cinema - Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle (Paperback)

What is the fate of cinema in an age of new technologies, new aesthetic styles, new modes of cultural production and consumption? What becomes of cinema and a century-long history of the moving image when the theatre is outmoded as a social and aesthetic space, as celluloid gives over to digital technology, as the art-house and multiplex are overtaken by a proliferation of home entertainment systems? "The Orientation of Future Cinema" offers an ambitious and compelling argument for the continued life of cinema as image, narrative and experience. Commencing with Lumiere's "Arrival of a Train at a Station," Bruce Isaacs confronts the threat of contemporary digital technologies and processes by returning to cinema's complex history as a technological and industrial phenomenon. The technology of moving images has profoundly changed; and yet cinema materialises ever more forcefully in digital capture and augmentation, 3-D perception and affect, High Frame Rate cinema, and the evolution of spectacle as the dominant aesthetic mode in contemporary studio production.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	August 2014
Authors:	Bruce Isaacs
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-62892-431-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62892-431-4
Barcode:	9781628924312

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